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Posted by Dutchrailnut on Sat Apr 22 19:08:23 2006, in response to Re: The LIRR President Speaks, posted by WillD on Sat Apr 22 18:38:50 2006. If you think for a moment that a M-7 with 1000 hp per car and AC propulsion uses more electricity than a M-3 with DC propulsion and everything wasted through Grid resistors at 660 hp per car your sadly mistaken.The M-7's are twice as fast accelerating than the M-3's who could never operate at full rate. The Weight is something nothing can be done about the car structure which must be capable og a 1000 000 crush load is never gone weigh less than what they are. If todays Comet V weighs in at over 100 000 lbs you will never built a MU for much less than what a M-7 weighs. You claim destruction of track structure by M-7's ??? cool wonder how 298 000 lbs Genesis units and simular DE/DM's don't destruct track ?? You are again on a unsupported rant, with unsubstantiated bullshit you know nothing about. For Budd they sold their rail business while order book was full with M3's for LIRR and M3a for MNCR they were building the Baltimore subway cars and the Miami Metro cars. When the company emerged as Transit America it was owned by Thyssen Ag the same company that tried to hog swindle us into buying the transrapid Maglev system, the same company that currently still owns BUDD. The M-3's had shitloads of problems, so did Baltimore and Miami cars. Mainly because due to large orders they used unskilled workers to assemble cars just like todays manufacturers do. |
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